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. Planning Commission Page 19 December 10, 1997 r. ~ ~ ROLL CALL VOTE . AYES: NOES: ABSENT: ABSTAIN: Commissioners Barker, Dove, Kumaran, and Lutz, and Chair Cooper None Commissioner Wright None Resolution No. PC-97-96 was entered and adopted as motioned. d. PUD-81-30-73D. ADG Develonment and Investments. Inc. Application for design review approval to construct a two-story approximately 24,230 square-foot office building located on a 1.39 acre site at 4780 Chabot Drive. Zoning for the property is PUD (planned Unit Development) - I/C-O (Industrial/Commercial-Office) District. Mr. Iserson presented the staff report. He gave a history of the application and described the proposed building, parking, driveway, and landscaping. He noted that the application is consistent with the Hacienda guidelines and that a traffic study revealed that it meets the plan. He further noted that an office building will cause much less traffic than a retail store. . Mr. Iserson pointed out that the site is adjacent to the recently constructed Arby' s Restaurant. At the time that Arby's was considered and approved by the City, the property owner indicated that the subject site would be developed with a 10,000 square foot retail building. However, the present applicant has chosen to propose the 24,230 square foot office building. He further stated that the Hopyard Road/Owens Drive intersection is the most critical in the area and there are planned mitigations that would need to be implemented to insure that this project does not cause the intersection to go below a Service D level. The mitigations will be constructed within the next year. Mr. Iserson explained that when Arby's was approved, the Commission required the driveway adjacent to Chabot Drive connecting the two sites to be redesigned for a straighter alignment. While this was accomplished on the building permit plans for Arby's, the present proposal does show a slight offset. This is necessary since the office building needs parking on both sides of that driveway, causing a slight shift to the west. Staff believes that this configuration is safe and that there will be little traffic between the two sites to cause any circulation problems. The traffic consultant also had no concern with the on-site circulation. Staff feels that the building is attractively designed and the proposed landscaping complements the building. Mr. Iserson further noted that the only sign the applicant has proposed is a monument sign that is conceptual at this point. Staff has included a condition to work out the detail for the sign prior to the issuance of building pennits.